184 Responses to Weekend 18th July 2026

  1. atlas_shrugged says:

    Is anyone else happy about the rumour leaked to MSM that DigitalID is being scrapped? Because I blinking am.

    No doubt the swamp will try to bring this in again – like next week, for example.

    Now cancel the other useless projects e.g.

    HS2
    East West Fail
    Southall Airport 4
    Paying French to send invaders to UK
    The Stonehenge tunnel
    Asylum Hotels
    Lower Thames crossing
    etc etc

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Leaked and renamed – it is a simple method of distraction.
      Andy gets bonus points (political capital) and the project rolls on.

      See Trans clinics – the big one was shut, and broken into smaller ones.

      large image of gov and your money …https://talk.hyvor.com/media/website/14037/6YpKRmpF5XUXvk6W7N1sPUulKGBTizj4MtpUH5vt.jpg

      …………

      The time-limited Office for Value for Money (OVfM) within HM Treasury has been formally closed. After delivering its target of identifying nearly £14bn in efficiencies per year, its core functions and spending framework reforms were mainstreamed directly into HM Treasury and the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority (NISTA)

      The £22bn ‘black hole’ was obvious to anyone who dared to look
      Paul Johnson Published on 5 August 2024
      …..
      Value for Money tsar linked to string of overspends
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1lgpejq85po
      David Goldstone has previously worked as a top executive on the London Olympics, Parliament’s restoration and HS2 high speed rail.

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    • Deborah says:

      I read somewhere it is only as a requirement for work that Burnham is scraping digital ID. For things like submitting company accounts to Companies House, we will still have to be signed in to OneLogin. We have to always read the small print and never believe a word Burnham speaks.

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      The magnificent David Kurten calls out the Burnham devious PR:

      Burnham’s statement that he is going to stop digital ID is a deception.
      One Login is still moving full speed ahead with 8 million company directorships and 42 million driving licence renewals needing biometric digital ID verification, along with ever expanding AML/KYC regulations that restrict anonymous use of one’s own money.
      His words cannot be trusted.

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    • Up2snuff says:

      a_s, 🙂 x20!

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  2. BRISSLES says:

    I can’t lay claim to this as I saw it on another site ……. but it made me chuckle 😃

    ….. finally, an African team coming 3rd in a world cup …..

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  3. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    They arrested 12 far right terrorists (for flying a drone) which saved countless Muslim lives (so they said)
    They then released them, no charge.

    Then there’s the Ann Widdecombe murderer. One lefty terrorist.

    These 12 far right ‘terrorists’ will go on the ‘far right’ threat list. I don’t know which list the lefty will go on.

    You can see how the politicians and all their lefty woke mates come up with the barmy figures saying right wing terrorism is the biggest threat.
    12 flying a harmless drone = 12 on the list.
    Things like Manchester bombing (or any of the others) count as 1 terrorist on the list.

    The Right, even on GB News don’t seem to be making much of things like this. They may mention it as an aside but not much whereas if the left had any bombings (or anything else) we would never hear the end of it as in the Stephen Lawrence case.
    I also don’t believe Thomas Mair (Jo Cox killer) was a Right wing terrorist. I think he was a Labour supporter and had mental issues (probably linked) but because a lefty was killed they blame the Right.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Maybe they can ask their God to strike down the drones? Simple? Effective and frees up police time.

      “Saudi Arabia does not classify the Ijtima (Islamic congregation) itself as a terrorist organization. However, the Kingdom has officially banned the Tablighi Jamaat movement—which organizes large Ijtima events worldwide—categorizing it as a “danger to society” and “one of the gates of terrorism”” Google AI

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  4. MarkyMark says:

    “Ally Outten received an honour for lending prom dresses to struggling families”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpd3dd3vv65o

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  5. MarkyMark says:

    Real Title “Woman not interested in football attends game with husband who bailed out her failed fashion range with money from football, as man is filmed with any brand that will pay him regardless of this beliefs or allegiance to country although he has been given award by his King who he does not like.”

    BBC Title “1. Posh keeps cool in the Miami heat”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdr4rrzypymo

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  6. harry142857 says:

    BBC bias row explodes as 10-part Brexit series interviews just one Leave campaigner

    Campaign group News-Watch found the documentary ignored Brexit’s benefits

    A BBC bias row has erupted after a 10 part series on Brexit included just one Leave campaigner. Nineteen people spoke negatively about Britain’s exit from the European Union in the Radio 4 documentary, Politically: Ten Years After Brexit, according to a report. The BBC insisted the series was made in line with its editorial guidelines.

    Campaign group, News-Watch, which monitors public service broadcaster impartiality, found the series ignored the benefits of Brexit. The only guest it said had defended the UK leaving the bloc was economist, Julian Jessop, from the Institute of Economic Affairs.

    News-Watch found at least three interviewees had links to pro-Remain organisations, but this was not shared with listeners.

    This included Sam Lowe, who was a senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform and Mujtaba Rahman, from Eurasia Group.

    Listeners were told Sarah Main was a former director at the Campaign for Science and Engineering, but not informed the group said Brexit would damage UK science.

    Former BBC journalist, David Keighley, who is now managing director of News-Watch, told the Telegraph the BBC has shown it remains pro-EU “to the core”.

    David Keighley added: “The BBC is still pro-EU, still anti-Brexit and still unwilling to admit it.”

    A BBC spokesman said: “This series was made in line with the BBC’s editorial guidelines which require the highest standards of impartiality”.

    It explores how various policy areas and aspects of public and political life have changed since Brexit, with expert contributors putting facts and figures into context and highlighting the positive and negative impacts of Brexit.”

    The accusation of BBC anti-Brexit bias comes as the broadcaster releases a three-minute film to promote itself by asking what the corporation has ever done for viewers.

    Daily Express

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Clive Myrie’s lecture: The BBC – Destroy at Your Peril
      Royal Television Society
      19.7k subscribers

      23 viewed.

      ……………..

      The BBC is something that belongs to all of us. #ThisIsOurBBC
      BBC
      15.6m subscribers

      “No other broadcaster in the world has had such a diverse, exciting and long history. The BBC celebrates its centenary in 2022.”

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      • pugnazious says:

        Is that the Clive Myrie who, as well as his colleague Jeremy Bowen, lied to us by telling us that the Israelis had completely destroyed a hospital and killed hundreds in Gaza?

        Not my BBC.

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  7. Scroblene says:

    I feel a sonnet coming on…

    The Fabian member,
    Gone by November,
    Never remembered,
    Except for Mid Staffs…

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  8. tomo says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Alex Salmond’s firm was paid £30k a week for Kremlin-backed TV show
      The former first minister rented a luxury apartment overlooking Big Ben while hosting his eponymous show for the Russian station RT

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      • tomo says:

        Not really rushing to defend Salmond here – plenty of others who’ve taken similar cash…

        “The unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible” does come to mind.

        Sturgeon is though, I feel, a proper rotten egg who should be pursued into penury. The overgenerous funds available to MSPs and functionaries weren’t enough – so her and her baldie beard helped themselves to piles more assuming that their status would be a shield.

        Anyone remember her 3 hairdos in 24 hours during COVID?

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        • Fedup2 says:

          I did enjoy David Davies laying out the corruption of high and mighty crankie using parliamentary privilege. He did it in front of the deputy speaker – I was thinking if he tried it in front of the comrade corrupt Hoyle he’d have got sat down .

          Nothing will happen – the Scots too infected with brave heart …

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          • tomo says:

            A special, commemorative episode of Rab C Nesbitt would be an excellent consolation prize though.

            What irks me though is the kid gloves approach taken by the MSM – her working the Saltire face paint crew was a UK political low imho.

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        • MarkyMark says:

          “Nicola Sturgeon defended her hair during the 2020 coronavirus lockdown after critics accused her of breaking restrictions to get professional styling. She hit back at the accusations, joking that the number of men “obsessed” with her hair was “weird” and stating that any woman would know no hairdresser had been near it.Sturgeon clarified that she had been doing her hair entirely at home, receiving virtual lessons and drop-off products from her trusted stylist, Julie McGuire, via FaceTime”

          She also participated in home haircuts from the other side, sharing photos of herself using clippers on her husband, Peter Murrell, alongside the hashtag #PrayforPeter.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      NHS says hold my Andy Burnham beer … “The NHS is vulnerable to over £1.3 billion in fraud, bribery, and corruption annually. To combat this, the NHS Counter Fraud Authority (NHSCFA) operates independently to investigate economic crimes ranging from procurement bribery to payroll fraud and falsified patient exemptions.” Google AI

      “The NHS is paying GP practices in England bonuses of up to £3,000 a year to prescribe weight-loss drugs (often referred to as ‘fat jabs’), alongside £1,000 for referring patients to weight management programmes. This Changes to the GP Contract on NHS England policy aims to speed up equitable access to treatments like Mounjaro.”

      “The £13.4 billion NHS debt write-off was announced in April 2020 by then-Health Secretary Matt Hancock to wipe out historic loans accumulated by over 100 NHS hospital trusts in England. For a detailed breakdown of which specific trusts had their loans cleared, see the GOV.UK NHS Debt Write-Off Regional Breakdown.”

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    • Guest Who says:

      At least it stays in the local economy, at least a short while until Western Union opens.

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  9. tomo says:

    We are already hearing about Fatcha… !

    – there will be more, lots more…

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    • Scroblene says:

      What is it with socialists selling everything gold in the UK?

      I bet that info on the ‘golden shares’ was never published back then, and as the Fabian Flip-flop wouldn’t understand the trade, as he read English at Uni, he’d never know!

      We’re going to run out of Starmer’s ‘legacies’ soon, Thunderbird Burnham being the latest…

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  10. Lucy Pevensey says:

    The FOI breakdown is brutal. West Yorkshire’s DEI structure includes: a Head of Diversity on £91,536, DEI Manager on £57,252, multiple DEI Officers on £45,924, DEI comms staff on £42–53k, and an internal Equality and Diversity Trainer on £45,924.

    On top of that, there are uniformed “Positive Action” roles – Inspector (£94,272), Sergeant (£79,716), Progression Officer (£45,924) and six Positive Action Ambassadors on £59,844 each.

    Meanwhile, a frontline constable starts on £31,164 in the same force.

    So an officer patrolling Bradford’s high‑crime streets earns less than half the salary of a DEI Head, and far less than a Positive Action Inspector whose job is to manage representation metrics rather than fight crime.

    The message inside the organisation is clear: ideological roles are prestige roles.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Just read that the ‘met’ is to axe its’ traffic division … presumabley a third worlder in a boiler suit will now turn up at fatal accident scenes using Lego to work out what happened ….
      Plod really does reflect the descent of Blighty …. I wonder when they’ll replace the bloody helicopter with a drone … ?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Add names – we are passed titles now.

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  11. tomo says:

    How are the polls giving this guy double digit % vote share?

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  12. StewGreen says:

    “HnH is leftwing McCarthyism”

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  13. Fedup2 says:

    The non terrorist non attack on a bunch of Muslims plotting to destroy Blighty is – in my view – deeply troubling – both the dead pm and dead Home Secretary rolled out the usual lines about ‘stopped a credible threat ‘ and ‘saved lives ‘ … Der der der … when in fact there was nothing …..

    Doing this undermines any remaining reliance on authority at times of extreme danger . Would you believe them if – say – there was another 7/7 in the making ?

    A Muslim terrorist attack would be PICU d – deflected as a Far right ‘ ( lie ) and the usual ‘dont speculate’ crap ….. and as usual – the less information coming out – the more likely the terrorist it to be ‘approved ‘ ie Muslim …

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  14. Lucy Pevensey says:

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  15. Fedup2 says:

    Monday is going to be a tough day .

    The BBC will cheerlead the full on anointing of a false prime minister who is in place running a country on 24000 muppet votes …
    The helicopter will be up – we will witness ‘history in the making ‘ as he wings his way under that clever police escort to the palace to be greeted by the sultan – who will ask what more he will do to protect his Muslims …

    Then the number 10 door step picture of a happy Andy off to start work – a few empty words – a bit of choked false emotion and then smiling comrades getting their new / old jobs…. To make all us taxpayers suffer …

    Presumably TTK has gone by now – on a holiday to Cuba – paid for using parliamentary expenses of course …

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  16. Lucy Pevensey says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “A woman just had one of these people turn up at her door DEMANDING to know if she was watching the BBC… because she didn’t have a licence.

      These clowns don’t even work for the BBC.

      They’re Capita contractors behalf of TV Licensing not the BBC itself.

      They have ZERO legal power to come into your house, force you to talk, or demand anything.

      Just say “No thank you” and slam the door.

      Biggest con in the UK. Don’t engage.”

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      Notice the statue that they NEVER PULLED down? HA AH AHH AHA !

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  17. Foscari says:

    The BBC football commentators in particularly
    Steve Wilson must be the only commentators
    from a country playing an international who
    feel that they must not in any way support
    England in commentary .
    Steve Wilson who reveres Kylian Mbappe
    rebuked pundit and fellow commentator
    Danny Murphy who showed emotion by banging
    his microphone in frustration when failed to score on
    one occasion against France last night. Wilson made
    Murphy apologise to us. Like he had said ” fu-k it” Or words
    to that affect. When Mbappe scored it sounded like Wilson
    was at least ecstatic about it,

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  18. Fedup2 says:

    Seems the internet presence of the Ann Widdecombe suspect has been wiped . People have been trying to research and found nothing … really ?

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  19. BRISSLES says:

    A new production of My Fair Lady is in production for later in the year at Chichester.

    Keziah Ibe (me neither) is playing Eliza Doolittle and Col. Pickering ( no-one can beat Wilfred Hyde-White in that part) will be performed by Tony Jawardenia (?).

    Another one to miss.

    I’m already saving a fortune by boycotting all brands that are more intent on selling diversity than the product itself.

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    • Lucy Pevensey says:

      Keziah Ibe, Nigerian actress.

      Z

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    • Ian Rushlow says:

      Given the ability of AI to generate authentic looking videos, it would be technically possible to give online movie viewers the ability to change the actors and actresses to suit their own preferences. For instance, suppose Netflix made a movie about the life of Nelson Mandela. Almost certainly they would choose someone like Ryan Gosling or Leonardo DiCaprio to play him because, you know, they always use colour-blind casting. And most people would find it totally normal to see either of these fine actors playing Mandela, or even say someone like Lucy Liu. However, for those who are less tolerant and would prefer to see Mandela played by a black man, simply because he actually was a black man, well they could use AI to change the actor to say, someone like Morgan Freeman or Idris Elba. What’s not to like?

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  20. tomo says:

    It’s history….

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  22. tomo says:

    Hermer…..

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  23. pugnazious says:

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    Burnham elevated to the highest office in the Kingdom without any challenge or scrutiny…he so far dodges all media interviews apart from his lefty chum Lineker….I can remember a time when Boris was doing over 100 interviews and yet Andrew Neil & Co were calling him a dictator because he didn’t do an interview with Neil.

    The BBC is so far soft-soaping us with reports about Burnham that are as anodyne as his speech at a time when everyone else is blasting him for being a old fashioned lefty wanting to drag us back to the nightmare of the ’70’s….

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz7djw5dznpo

    This is a man wanting to bring about radical change but who has no mandate at all…and little scrutiny from the BBC….but then another rising star from nowhere, Starmer, was their last great hope…apparently the brilliantly forensic lawyer who would bring calm and stability to the nation….instead of course he made it increasingly a more divisive and hate-filled nation as he pandered to his Muslim voters and demonised Whites…and this of course carried on to his relentless and orchestrated attacks on Reform and Farage which no doubt led to the febrile anti-Reform atmosphere that resulted in Ann Widdecombe’s murder.

    Starmer never let an interview, speech or a PMQs go by without shouting out that Reform were racist, divisive and hateful….his colleagues also led with those accusations as of course did the Lefty Media.

    ‘The PM said: “You only have to look at the toxicity flowing from their candidate for Gorton and Denton to know what they are about – dangerous ideas that pull at the fabric of who we are in Britain. They don’t have solutions to the challenges we face as a country. All they can offer is a smokescreen of hate and division.’

    ‘Labour Deputy Leader urges unity to defeat Reform, calling the party ‘poison and cancer”

    ‘Starmer said that though people’s frustrations with the economy and migration were real, “a small minority see instead an opportunity to whip up hatred … to follow an old and dangerous playbook that sets people against one another”.

    Starmer tried to create the idea that Reform were basically the new Nazis bringing back the ’30’s…purely because they wanted a more controlled immigration system.

    So you might justifiably ask who it is that is in fact stirring up division, hate and extreme polarisation based on race and lies…answer…Starmer and those who support him….and now Burnham…the picture at the top is a post by one of Burnham’s advisors.

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  25. MarkyMark says:

    Britain / 17 July 2026
    Burnham: I’ll end 40 years of Thatcherism
    https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/burnham-ill-end-40-years-thatcherism

    Mr Burnham also pledged an end to Labour factionalism and “insidious briefing,” and to build a new political culture which was “less toxic.”

    ……………
    John McDonnell apologises for Thatcher ‘joke’ offence
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10263076
    At a Labour leadership event on Monday he said that if he could go back in time he would “assassinate Thatcher”.

    The left-wing MP told BBC Radio 5 live it was meant as a “joke”, but he could understand if people took offence.

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  26. pugnazious says:


    ‘BBC uses highest-paid celebrities to beg for licence fee’
    ‘Advert features household names earning six figures to make case that broadcaster is ‘really worth it’

    The BBC has used its highest-paid celebrities for an ad campaign to make the case for its controversial licence fee.

    The video advert, which champions the virtues of the broadcaster and its “thorough” news verification, stars 90 household names, including the corporation’s heavy hitters whose six-figure earnings are funded by fee payers.’

    Lol…boasting about their ‘thorough’ news verification…not their own news of course…and even when someone complains that complaint is almost certainly dismissed.

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  27. MarkyMark says:

    “Lucy Powell on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, claiming Burnham will be “bolder” than Starmer but will nonetheless stick to Labour’s 2024 manifesto:

    “Our manifesto did talk about the redistribution of power, it did talk about the rewiring of our country, it did talk about taking on some of those vested interests… [Burnham] really understands the bigger, bolder measures that are needed to live up to the manifesto promises.”

    She also claimed privatisation of water “hasn’t worked“. Burnham becomes Prime Minister tomorrow afternoon. Strap in…”

    https://order-order.com/2026/07/19/powell-burnham-will-be-bolder-but-stick-to-labour-manifesto/

    Comment “So translate as we’ll use vague statements in the Manifesto to do what we want without a mandate.

    But let’s not forget what you did say in your manifesto Lucy:

    Stop the chaos – been nothing but since you won

    Deliver economic stability keeping taxes inflation and mortgages as low as possible – FAILED

    New Border Security to smash the gangs – FAILED

    Set up British Energy to cut bills for good – FAILED

    Recruit 6,500 new teachers – FAILED

    Take back our streets from violent crime – FAILED FAILED FAILED

    Remove barriers to economic growth – FAILED

    1.5 million new homes – FAILED

    Slash Fuel poverty – FAILED

    Standing up for our armed forces and veterans – FAILED

    No increase in National Insurance – FAILED

    No increase in tax for working people – FAILED

    But hey have made us all pay for “free” Breakfast Clubs”

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  28. tomo says:

    Zero coverage at the BBC

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Again, literally treason

      Also if you remember awhile back, a former CIA officer named Pedro Israel Orta who worked at the CIA during the Trump Administration said the CIA didn’t even recognize him as the President, they wouldn’t even put his picture up on the wall which was customary for all Presidents

      They were actively working against him”

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  29. MarkyMark says:

    “Labour doesn’t get it.”

    “Mr Burnham criticises selling UK utilities to foreign states and companies. I agree. I helped Margaret Thatcher put in Golden shares to prevent this. It was the Labour government after 1997 that wrongly cancelled these protections to please the EU.

    https://x.com/zatzi/status/2078814724288913616

    “I live in a village with a church, a pub, a village hall and a community that has street parties, fetes, village bbqs etc.

    The equivalent of 5x our village’s population arrived here today alone.

    “Today, 1,061 illegal migrants violated our sovereignty by crossing the English Channel via small boat.

    This week, the Government returned only three individuals with no right to remain in our country.

    That is wholly inadequate — all must be returned.”

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    • tomo says:

      Oh, I think you’ll find Labour *do* get it – they also think they’ll get away with it.

      – but they’re too deluded and ignorant to figure out what “it” actually is.

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  30. MarkyMark says:

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  31. MarkyMark says:

    “Ladies, see a bloke behaving in a threatening and aggressive manner on the tube? Why not talk to him about the football? Another great idea from @MayorofLondon 🙄”
    https://x.com/LilyLilyMaynard/status/2078824395766698238

    Say maaate to a mate shows how a simple, familiar word can be all you need to interrupt when a friend is going too far without making things awkward, ruining the moment or putting your friendship at risk.
    https://www.london.gov.uk/maaate

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  32. MarkyMark says:

    SEE YOU ALL IN THE BBC GULAGES ON MONDAY UNDER BURNHAM – REMEMBER TO BRING YOU BEST JOKES SO WE CAN RE-EDUCATE OURSELVES COMRADES.

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  35. tomo says:

    whataboutery

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  37. Fedup2 says:

    It does strike me as ‘odd’ – that big government projects – so vital that they are worth spending billions – suddenly become unnecessary – eg digital surveillance – HS2 – and – no doubt more runways at Heathrow or Gatwick … or water supplies …or roads … lucky they keep the DEI advisers …

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